Artist description Of celtic and Berber cultural backgrounds, the Mugar musicians worked in a spirit of encounter and eclectism around three flute players, Youenn Le Berre, Nasredine Dalil and Michel Sikiotakis. Traditional repertoire and original compositions, loans and exchanges, blends and confrontations together weave there repertoire which makes of the differences their source of creation.

Music Style Mugar blends Celtic music and Berber music from North Africa

Musical Influences Irish music, breton music, berber music, jazz, folk, contemporary music...

Similar Artists Alan Stivell, Idir, Altan, Chieftains

Artist History The band was a creation commisionned by La Villette (cultural park in Paris) to play at the "Printemps Celtique" festival in June 1996. The audience loved so much this experience that the band continued on touring, and recording a CD "kabily-touseg" (Tempo Maker/Mélodie).

Group Members • Youenn Le Berre (concert flute,bass flute, fife, wooden flute, tin-whistle, Highlands bagpipes & vocal) • Nasredine Dalil (concert flute, vocal, bendir, t'bel, karkabou)• Michel Sikiotakis (Irish wooden flute, tin-whistle, low-whistle, bombarde, acoustic guitar, vocal) ----- Musicians who played on the CD : • Fadila Dalil (vocal) • Christine Ghoggal (vocal) • Renaud Binet* (fiddle) • Jean-Marc Gloaguen* (acoustic guitar, bouzouki) • Fatah Ghoggal (acoustic guitar, vocal) • Gilles Hellou* (Irish wooden flute, treujen-gaol)• El-hadj Khalfa (ghaïta, t'bel, bendir, karkabou, vocal) • Simon Lambert* (bodhrán) • Jean-Pierre Le Meur* (fiddle, bass clarinet, biniou) • Stéphane Le Mouelic* (tin-whistle) • Bernard Petiot* (fiddle) --- * : from the band "Broken String"

Instruments Mugar is a 14 pieces acoustic band including flutes, vocal, bendir, t'bel, bodhran, karkabou, acoustic guitar, fiddle, bagpipes, gheïta, bombarde, biniou...

Albums Kabily-touseg (Tempo-Maker/Mélodie) 34502-2

Press Reviews KABILY-TOUSEG. Mugar. 34502-2. This is a queer one! A group of musicians in Paris, experienced in both Berber, Irish and Breton music got together to make an album based around three flute-players, Michel Sikiotakis, Nasredine Dalil and Youenn le Berre. This kind of thing is not something I normally enthuse about, but it’s very, very good. It’s refreshing to hear somebody doing something genuinely experimental without the pomposity that’s sometimes associated with innovations. These are musicians, not opportunists. Finbar Boyle, Claddagh Records Newsletter, April 98

Additional Info The lineup of the band actually touring at the moment is slightly different.

Location Paris - France

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